This Sunday is Pentecost. For 50 days, a group of 120 followers of Jesus waited. Their teacher, for whom they had left all they had, was now gone. Judas, one of their own, betrayed their master and then killed himself. The comforter they had been promised had not yet come.

I had the opportunity to interview Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen about ice cream, Oreos -- and how the bloated military budget is destroying our economy and making us all less secure.

It was announced today that Glenn Beck will end his program on the Fox News Channel later this year in order to create a "variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channe

On December 13, a Tacoma-based jury declared five Disarm Trident Now Plowshares activists "guilty" of trespass, felony damage to federal property, felony injury to property, and felony conspiracy to damage property.

"I thank my God every time I think of you.

Thirty turkeys per minute. Airport scanners. Hogwarts. Here’s a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week:

• Workers in turkey plants handle as many as 30 turkeys per minute.

• How to make the perfect pie crust.

• This Thanksgiving, remember the hands that feed you.

• Opposed to the new airport scanners and aggressive patdowns? So is Captain Sully.

• A photographer turns his aging and depressed grandmother into a superhero.

• Fast Company asks, “Who are the CEOs of Hogwarts?”

• Speaking of Hogwarts, did you read Julie Clawson’s blog about Harry Potter and Social Justice?

• A reluctant uncle witnesses the home birth of his nephew.